The impact of radar and raingauge sampling errors when calibrating a weather radar

Meteorological Applications

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 43-52

  Seed, A W ^a   Nicol, J ^a   Austin, G L ^a   Stow, C D ^a   Bradley, S G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERRORS; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RADAR SIGNAL PROCESSING; RAIN;

ABOVE GROUND LEVEL; HIGH-RESOLUTION MEASUREMENTS; RADAR OBSERVATIONS; RADAR REFLECTIVITIES; RAINFALL INTENSITY; RAINGAUGE MEASUREMENTS; SAMPLING PROBLEMS; STANDARD ERRORS;

RADAR MEASUREMENT;

CALIBRATION; ERROR CORRECTION; MODELING; RADAR; RAINFALL; RAINGAUGE; SAMPLING; SATELLITE DATA;

EID: 0002552742     PISSN: 13504827     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/met.5060030105     Document Type: Article

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